CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER

APRIL 14, 1865

• Lincoln is happy the Civil War is over.
• Lincoln's son was finally home from the war.
• Booth was getting mail and noticed flags for the presidents arrival.
• Booth was now going to plan a assignation of Lincoln at Fords Theater.
• Booth meets his accomplishes, and plans Lincoln's assignation.

APRIL 14, 1865

• Powel attacked the Seward Family, while he was bed-written.
• Atorzot was assigned to kill VP Johnson, he went to the hotel lobby and got drunk instead.
• Booth shot Lincoln at the ford
• Booth said " sic Semper tyrannes" on page 39
• Booth broke his leg when he jumped to the stage from the presidents box.

APRIL 15, 1865

• Booth meets up with Herold and they both go to Mudd's farm.
• Lincoln died at 7:22 am in the Petersen boardinghouse.
• "He is gone, he is dead." said one of the doctors.
• Mudd found out about that Booth and Herold were the assassins, they left Mudd's then.
• Mudd gave Booth and Herold directions to Samuel Cox.

APRIL 15, 1865

• Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton took the place of the President instead of the VP for the manhunt.
• Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton started the manhunt for Booth and his henchmen.
• The reward money for catching them $50,000 for Booth, $25,000 for Herold, and $25,000 for John Surratt
• Many false sightings of Booth and Herold made the manhunt hard.
• Fords Theater investigated for the evidence.

APRIL 16, 1865

• Stanton had no idea of where Booth's destination.
• Booth and Herold arrive at Samuel Cox's house.
• Samuel Cox got a confederate spy named Thomas Jones to help him.
• Herold killed their horses and put them in a sand trap

APRIL 17, 1865

• Major Smith went to Surratts boarding house, and arrested most of the residents.
• Monday, April 17 was the most successful day of the in the three day manhunt for Lincoln's assassins.
• Edman Spangler was arrested (the 39 year old stagehand from Fords Theater) His crime was holding the reins of Booths horse.
• Michael O'Laughlen was arrested (the 28 year old, child hood friend of Booth) for participating in an old plan to kid-nape the president.
• Many people in the theater at the time were rounded up and arrested, the (basically everyone was arrested in the theater) Fords were accused of helping Booth.

APRIL 17, 1865

• General Lee surrendered the Confederate army, but the war was not over for Stanton.
• Other armies had not surrendered yet in some southern states.
• When Booth planned his escape he did not plan to be in the woods. He was waring a suit that looked as if he was attacked by a bear.
• While soldiers questioned Marry Surratt, a man carrying a pic axe who was Lewis Powel the Man claimed to be digging a pipe.
• She claims to not know him.

APRIL 18, 1865

• Thomas Jones paid a visit to Samuel Cox's farm and gave Booth and Herold newspapers, food and supplies.
• Mudd Is being questioned by Unoin soldiers. Mudd was not arrested, but the soldiers would soon come back to arrest him.
• Booth found out that he was view as a monster and Lincoln was a hero.
• Booth also learned that Powel sinisterly attacked the whole Seward house hold.
• Booth's friend burned Booth's letter that he was suppose to deliver to the public.

APRIL 18, 1865

• Booth wanted to explain why he killed Lincoln.
• Surrat was accused of attacking Seward, he ran away to rome and joined the Pope's army.
• Jones paid his third call on Booth and Herold.
• Jones risked arrest every time he visited

APRIL 19, 1865

• Lincoln's funeral would be on the nineteenth.
• Thousands of people waited in line to view the open casket.
• Everything building was lined with black crepe
• One of the saddest days in the history of the country.
• Lincoln was delivered in the carriage to the train to go to Springfield

APRIL 20, 1865

• Booth went the wrong way on the row boat over the river
• Ateserot was arrested
• Aterot confessed to the Union soldiers
• In marryland two teams were planing a raid where they would capture Atzerodt

APRIL 21, 1865

• Booth and Herold went to a friend of Herold's house
• A lost week it felt good to be on the move again page 115
• Dr. Stuart failed to display souther hospitably, Booth later wrote a letter to him shaming him
• Booth went to neighbor of Stuart Lucas who after violence agreed.

APRIL 22/23, 1865

• Booth and Herold made it to Virginia and Booth shouted "I'm in safe in glorious old Virginia thank God"!
• Ax confederate spy gave Booth and Herold horses
• A action packed issue of the from the national police gazett
• Then they were going to go to Dr. Stuart, but he refused to help him.
• "I think Booth has crossed the river, and I want you to go right out." Said Lafayette, page 116.

APRIL 24, 1865

• Booth and Herold arrived at Garret's farm and spent the night.
• Dr Samuel a Mudd was arrested and taken to the old capitol prison
• A telegraph ordered Lieutenant Edward to report Luther Byron Baker.
• Edward p. Doherty, Luther baker, and Everton conger went to virginia

APRIL 25, 1865

• Lafayette had the trust of the war Secarty
• Lafayette took more credit and money than he deserved
• "There goes the cavalry now" said garret page 120
• Conger said "where are the two men who came with you across the river"
• Jett betrayed Booth he said "I know who you want and I will tell where they can be found"

APRIL 26, 1865

• Cavalry surrounded the Garret's tobacco barn
• The door to the barn was locked booth was trapped
• " I will suffer death first" page 122
• "You beater give up" said Herold page 122
• Herold surrendered himself and booth told him "damn you! You have betrayed me"

APIL 26, 1865

• Luther Baker shouted "I want you to surrender, if you don't I will burn the bar down.
• Booth got shot in the back which paralyzed him then he died
• "Kill me kill me "page 129 said Booth
• Corbet shot Booth he said God told him to
• Mary Surratt, Lewis Powel, David Herold, and George Aterodt were all hanged for the part in Lincoln's assignation.

Epilogue

• Thomas Jones kept secret about what happened in the thicket twenty years later he told a writer about it.
• Samuel Mudd was released from prison by president Johnson.
• Lafayette Baker wrote a book exaggerating his role in killing Lincoln's killer.
• John Surratt was tracked down through Canada to Europe then to Egypt, and then brought back to USA and released.
• Major Henry Rathbone went insane and killed his wife Clara Harris with the same type of weapons that Booth used